March 17- 22

Last week I had a lot going on with the family so I forgot to record that on Mon or Tues I went out and planted more peas. Unlike what was stated in the last post I only got one square weeded and ready for planting.

This week I was going to go outside to plant more spring vegetables but had such bad allergies I stayed indoors most of the time. I did go out on our back deck and plant some peat pots with 3 kinds of tomatoes, eggplant, 3 kinds of peppers, watermelon, wee be little pumpkins, zucchini, butternut squash and some flowers. I brought them inside and have them downstairs under my grow light. I will turn the light on once they sprout. I wrote on each pot but will make a diagram soon just encase the marker is unreadable by the time the plants are big enough to plant outside.  I have to find my impatient seeds so I can also plant my hanging pots. That is my goal  this week since it needs to be done right away. I should be getting some allergy medicine next week to so I hope to feel up to going out this saturday and working some more.

Now I need to remember to water the plants that I have out there already so they don't die. It has been drier than usual this time of year  so my plants will need some extra TLC till the irrigation water gets turned on next month.

 Since I didn't get these posted last week here they are. This is before I weeded the raspberries.

 Here is my after .

Here is the square I prepared and planted chives in I forgot that I also transplanted a strawberry plant at the same time so I need to go and check on how it is doing. I didn't water it since this picture was taken. Hope it is alive.

My Garden

I am so excited for this years garden. I haven't ever gotten out and prepared my beds for planting this early. I have never been good at fall clean up and the weeds tend to get out of control early and stay that way. I did get all that weeding done last year and were I planted they aren't growing weeds as much but there are a few places that I just let go late in the season and they have weeds galore. I am hoping if I get them taken care of in early spring that I won't have as many problems with them this year. I will write about whether it works or not. It seems like most my flowerbeds in the front are easy to take care of except for one that I always forget about up next to the house where some bushes are planted. I never have done much weeding there. Also once my strawberries are done producing I seem to forget to keep weeding them so they get over run in August or so. Then I have a lot of weeds in the spring to take care of there. Right now the weeds are nothing like last year so far.

I also have plans to increase my garden space and plant more of what we eat. I have already planted peas twice and beets along with some Kohlrabi. I usually only get peas in this early. I also got seedlings started in the house and will start hardening them off in a week or two. I have got some sweet potato slips growing in the house as well. My mom saved some sweet potatoes from her garden last year. They have really done well. They like the place were I have put them next to my window in the kitchen. I put them out of the direct sunlight. They will be big enough to root in about two to three weeks as well.